diff --git a/src/common/util.ts b/src/common/util.ts
index 1d1849b6..687dee6b 100644
--- a/src/common/util.ts
+++ b/src/common/util.ts
@@ -5,3 +5,7 @@ export const parseFfprobeDuration = (durationStr: string | undefined) => (
 );
 
 export const getHwaccelArgs = (hwaccel: FfmpegHwAccel) => (hwaccel !== 'none' ? ['-hwaccel', hwaccel] : []);
+
+// Used to be 5, but we recently increased to 6 because https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/2838
+// I don't remember why 5 was chosen initially, but if we don't truncate, ffmpeg can sometimes give an error when too many decimal places are used in the time argument, see:
+export const formatFfmpegTime = (time: number) => time.toFixed(6);
diff --git a/src/main/ffmpeg.ts b/src/main/ffmpeg.ts
index 1487d1cc..eeab304f 100644
--- a/src/main/ffmpeg.ts
+++ b/src/main/ffmpeg.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import type { FFprobeFormat } from '../common/ffprobe.js';
 import isDev from './isDev.js';
 import logger from './logger.js';
 import { parseFfmpegProgressLine } from './progress.js';
-import { getHwaccelArgs, parseFfprobeDuration } from '../common/util.js';
+import { formatFfmpegTime, getHwaccelArgs, parseFfprobeDuration } from '../common/util.js';
 import { getFfmpegJpegQuality } from './ffmpegUtil.js';
 
 
@@ -260,9 +260,9 @@ export async function renderWaveformPng({ filePath, start, duration, resample, c
 }
 
 const getInputSeekArgs = ({ filePath, from, to }: { filePath: string, from?: number | undefined, to?: number | undefined }) => [
-  ...(from != null ? ['-ss', from.toFixed(5)] : []),
+  ...(from != null ? ['-ss', formatFfmpegTime(from)] : []),
   '-i', filePath,
-  ...(from != null && to != null ? ['-t', (to - from).toFixed(5)] : []),
+  ...(from != null && to != null ? ['-t', formatFfmpegTime(to - from)] : []),
 ];
 
 export function mapTimesToSegments(times: number[], includeLast: boolean) {
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/hooks/useFfmpegOperations.ts b/src/renderer/src/hooks/useFfmpegOperations.ts
index 8a054a7e..c524e946 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/hooks/useFfmpegOperations.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/hooks/useFfmpegOperations.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import { deleteDispositionValue, type AllFilesMeta, type Chapter, type CopyfileS
 import type { LossyMode } from '../../../main';
 import { UserFacingError } from '../../errors';
 import mainApi from '../mainApi';
-import { getHwaccelArgs } from '../../../common/util';
+import { formatFfmpegTime, getHwaccelArgs } from '../../../common/util';
 
 const { join, resolve, dirname } = window.require('path');
 const { writeFile, mkdir, access, constants: { W_OK } } = window.require('fs/promises');
@@ -278,8 +278,8 @@ function useFfmpegOperations({ filePath, treatInputFileModifiedTimeAsStart, trea
     if (detectedFps != null) cutDuration = Math.max(cutDuration, frameDuration); // ensure at least one frame duration
 
     // Don't cut if no need: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/50
-    const cutFromArgs = cuttingStart ? ['-ss', cutFromWithAdjustment.toFixed(5)] : [];
-    const cutToArgs = cuttingEnd ? ['-t', cutDuration.toFixed(5)] : [];
+    const cutFromArgs = cuttingStart ? ['-ss', formatFfmpegTime(cutFromWithAdjustment)] : [];
+    const cutToArgs = cuttingEnd ? ['-t', formatFfmpegTime(cutDuration)] : [];
 
     const copyFileStreamsFiltered = copyFileStreams.filter(({ streamIds }) => streamIds.length > 0);
 
@@ -480,10 +480,10 @@ function useFfmpegOperations({ filePath, treatInputFileModifiedTimeAsStart, trea
       // No progress if we set loglevel warning :(
       // '-loglevel', 'warning',
 
-      '-ss', cutFrom.toFixed(5), // if we don't -ss before -i, seeking will be slow for long files, see https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126#issuecomment-1135451043
+      '-ss', formatFfmpegTime(cutFrom), // if we don't -ss before -i, seeking will be slow for long files, see https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126#issuecomment-1135451043
       '-i', filePath,
       '-ss', '0', // If we don't do this, the output seems to start with an empty black after merging with the encoded part
-      '-t', (cutTo - cutFrom).toFixed(5),
+      '-t', formatFfmpegTime(cutTo - cutFrom),
 
       ...mapStreamsArgs,